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Practices 4

  1. For family offices, corporate groups and boards with more than one business and nobody looking across them.

    • Need a plan
    • Need growth
    • Need a brand
    • Get into retail
    • Zero to one
    • Scaling
  2. Practice

    Capital

    For anyone bringing money in or putting it to work: a raise, a grant, a bid.

    • Raise money
    • Grants and bids
    • Need a plan
    • Zero to one
    • Raising
    • Scaling
  3. Practice

    Ventures

    For owners, corporates and partners with something new to build.

    • Launch something new
    • Automate and use AI
    • Need growth
    • Idea
    • Zero to one
    • Scaling
  4. For chairs, owners and boards who want someone independent in the room and papers they can decide from.

    • Need a board
    • Need a plan
    • Scaling
    • Established and stuck
    • Raising

Cases 7

  1. We reviewed a family office's holdings as a single portfolio and proposed one role to manage what sits between them.

    • Need a plan
    • Need a board
    • Established and stuck
  2. We prepared a sports events business to raise investment and built the data room behind it.

    • Raise money
    • Raising
  3. We took two founders from an idea to a first-market plan, a tiered offer and a 14-day test with the pass marks agreed before it started.

    • Launch something new
    • Automate and use AI
    • Idea
    • Zero to one
  4. We ran growth, brand and teaching inside a venture-backed online MBA, and mentored its founders.

    • Need growth
    • Need a brand
    • Raise money
    • Scaling
    • Raising
  5. We turned a producer's export price list into the numbers a grocery buyer reads, and mapped the routes into retail.

    • Get into retail
    • Scaling
  6. We built a scanner that read 4,312 public contract notices in 45 days and passed 41 as worth a bid. It has run every day since.

    • Automate and use AI
    • Grants and bids
    • Zero to one
  7. Earlier work: brand, digital, film, commerce and early AI for agencies, brands and founders.

    • Need a brand
    • Need growth
    • Launch something new
    • Zero to one
    • Scaling
    • Established and stuck

Free tools 6

  1. Find the first process worth automating, check your data and legal basics, design the human in the loop, and measure whether it worked. For small businesses and teams.

    • Automate and use AI
  2. Get ready to win public contracts under the Procurement Act 2023: registrations, policies, evidence, social value, a go or no-go scorecard, a bid timeline and a quality check. Grant notes included.

    • Grants and bids
  3. A one-page business plan in nine boxes, with plain-English prompts for each box and a test plan for your riskiest assumption. Adapted from Ash Maurya's Lean Canvas.

    • Launch something new
    • Need a plan
  4. Everything a UK food, drink or consumer goods brand needs before a supermarket buyer meeting: legal, labels, barcodes, certification, margin, supply, the buyer pack and your rights.

    • Get into retail
    • Need growth
  5. Everything a UK seed investor expects to find in your data room, in nine folders, with an index template and a questions log. Built for SEIS and EIS rounds.

    • Raise money
  6. The 2026 SEIS and EIS company rules side by side, every document HMRC asks for, prompts for the risk to capital case, and what to do after the shares are issued.

    • Raise money

Answers 18

  1. Where should a small business start with AI automation?

    • Automate and use AI
    • Zero to one
    • Scaling
    • Established and stuck
  2. What is the difference between bid writing and grant writing?

    • Grants and bids
    • Zero to one
    • Scaling
    • Established and stuck
  3. What is EIS advance assurance and how does it work in 2026?

    • Raise money
    • Raising
    • Scaling
  4. What do UK food and drink brands need to export to the UAE and the US?

    • Get into retail
    • Need growth
    • Scaling
    • Zero to one
  5. What is the difference between a fractional CGO and a fractional CMO?

    • Need growth
    • Need a brand
    • Zero to one
    • Scaling
    • Established and stuck
  6. What should a go-to-market strategy include?

    • Need growth
    • Launch something new
    • Need a plan
    • Zero to one
    • Scaling
  7. How do you get a product into UK supermarkets?

    • Get into retail
    • Need growth
    • Zero to one
    • Scaling
  8. How do you set up a community interest company (CIC)?

    • Launch something new
    • Grants and bids
    • Idea
    • Zero to one
  9. How does a business show up in AI answers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google?

    • Automate and use AI
    • Need growth
    • Need a brand
    • Zero to one
    • Scaling
    • Established and stuck
  10. What does human in the loop mean for AI in a small business?

    • Automate and use AI
    • Scaling
    • Established and stuck
  11. What should a seed-stage data room contain in the UK?

    • Raise money
    • Zero to one
    • Raising
  12. What do you need to apply for SEIS advance assurance in 2026?

    • Raise money
    • Idea
    • Zero to one
    • Raising
  13. How do you apply for a small business grant in the UK in 2026?

    • Grants and bids
    • Idea
    • Zero to one
    • Scaling
  14. What is the difference between a venture builder and an accelerator?

    • Launch something new
    • Raise money
    • Idea
    • Zero to one
    • Raising
  15. What does a non-executive director do for a small or medium-sized business?

    • Need a board
    • Raising
    • Scaling
    • Established and stuck
  16. What is a fractional chief growth officer?

    • Need growth
    • Need a plan
    • Zero to one
    • Scaling
    • Established and stuck
  17. What is a venture studio?

    • Launch something new
    • Idea
    • Zero to one
  18. How can a hospitality business take orders through WhatsApp?

    • Automate and use AI
    • Need growth
    • Scaling
    • Established and stuck

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